A Vision to Behold:The Story of Electronic Displays

The 1930s began with the Great Depression and ended with World War II, but also gave us fast-improving TV resolution and new tech to see beyond the horizon – and under it. Darren Yates writes.

The high-octane ride of the 1920s had just gone up in flames with the Wall Street crash of November 1929, but the market malaise that followed would last years. Dire economic and political conditions in Germany gave rise in 1933 to new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, and almost immediately, new tensions would sweep across Europe. Meanwhile, television continued to improve significantly throughout the decade, but the focus of scientific endeavour would eventually fall on more militaristic targets. Nevertheless, the decade that began in collapse and ended with war delivered new vision technologies that are not only still with us today, but that our current-day lives cannot do without. Farnsworth takes on RCA The new decade dawned in Australia with visible progress on the momentous Sydney Harbour Bridge. As the two halves…

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